HELL RELL Dipset
Interview appears courtesy DonDiva DVD vol 1:How we getting it?Interviewer Moochie; The baby-faced GM
Moochie: What's with the album?
I didn't stick to no guide lines on this one. I said fuck that, this is what I want to do- it's for the hell of it. That's why I named it For The Hell Of It cause I'm not doing this shit for the money. I could stop rapping today or tomorrow and wouldn't have to worry about feeding family, know what I mean, and I aint doing it for the fame. Its…I'm in streets niggas know who I am. I'm just doing it the hell of it. Like I just went into the studio whatever came to my mind got recorded. I didn't go in there "Oh, I'm going to make a party record or I'm going to go in there and make a diss record or I'm going to go in there and this record. I just went in there and whatever came to mind that's how it came out.
What do you think the response is going to be like when it hits the streets?
I mean, the streets gonna fuck with it. The streets gonna fuck with it cause it's what they want., I'm spitting what they want. It's like everything that's going on in the streets is incorporated into my music. You feel me?. The club scene, getting money, the cars, the struggles the ups and downs. The back and forth to jail. All that shit is incorporated in my music. So, niggas is definitely going to embrace my shit. Cam has such a different style, you have a different style- what makes y'all so close and what makes y'all collaborate so well? < We compliment each other. Each and every individual in the Diplomats is a trend setter. Can you feel what I'm saying? JR Writer has a whole bunch of niggas running around trying to be like him, wearing their hat like him. Cam had the whole New York wearing pink at one time. Understand what I'm saying? Jim got everyone trying to be a Ryder. He's New York cities Ryder Man. And You know, I got the hardest out. I got every young nigga trying to step their bars up, floss harder, rhyme harder, ya know that's what it is- when we come together it's a movement. Everybody got their own individual swagger so when everyone come together and form that bird game- we fly over niggas and shit on them.
There's a lot of dudes that hate on the Dipset. What do you got to say to them, about that? They say' Dipset don't talk about nothing…Dipset is this..what do you say? Ya'll dudes are making money. Explain the situation because a lot of dudes don't think ya'll are getting money.
I mean we're rich brother. I mean I don't understand what they are talking about. I have an 06 Range Rover.
Album not even out…
Album not even out. I have no album out… $50,000 on my neck. No album out! It's like niggas got money man. Any day you can see Cam like…Who's driving around in exotic cars in the city right. It's a difference between luxury and exotic. Benzes, Beamers, jaguars those are luxury cars. We have exotic cars. We have Lamborghinis, we have Ferraris, we have Maseratis I mean, and you're liable to see us in the streets with them. It's not like we're in Hollywood or some fucking where. You see a $500,000 car parked on Lennox Ave, leaning on the sidewalk like 'what's good?' Niggas is rich we got liquor, clothes like all types of shit. Niggas is rich like JR, 40 cal everybody that's under that Diplomat umbrella is good money- before the album is even came out. Before niggas even put any type of project out. Cause that's the way Killa put it together. If you fucking with Killa he's either gonna make you rich or he's gonna make you famous or both.
Would you ever see yourself working outside of the Dipset camp?
No...it's in my blood. Killa…that's the big homie. I grind for Killa. I was in the ocean drowning my man threw me a lifesaver. "C'mon homie, let's do it." Feel me? Aint too many niggas doing that. There's strings attached when a lot of people do that. He did that out of genuine love
Let niggas know exactly what Hell Rell is about. Let them know what you bring from Harlem. Let them know what you want them to know about Hell Rell…
I went through a lot of bullshit to get here. This shit wasn't peaches and creme. A lot of people might see me in videos, interviews or whatever looking icy... doing the things that I do. Shit was hard my nigga...feel me? It's been times when I didn't want to live due to the trails and tribulations in the streets. I lost a lot of family members I lost a lot of niggas that aint here right now. I'm surrounded by a lot of people that... I don't even know. Basically when you're dealing with the rap game and the industry- you're around a lot of niggas and a lot of people that you don't really know it's just that the situation placed ya'll together to get the ball rolling. So it's a lot of fake people around you- you don't know who to trust- you got everybody out for your money. This shit is crazy. I'm not happy. So, I don't want y'all to think if I smile or if y'all see me laughing or joking…I'm crying on the inside. It's pain. I got emotional scars. So don't think I'm happy for one bit, B.
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Juelz Santana Dipset
Interview appears courtesy DonDiva DVD vol 1:How we getting it?Interviewer G-Rod
G Rod: What's good?
Aint nothing, just grindin, man.
You've got that new album coming out- how's it lookin?
It's crazy man. I've been working so hard. I put so much into this album. You see I've got my own studio. I done over 160 songs in the process of just putting this album together. And I really feel like it's everything I wanted it to be and more. I stepped my whole level of my rap game up. The whole level of putting songs together and just the way I make music, know what I'm saying, and still being me. And making the kind of music I like to make. I really think I'm definitely going to get a great response from this album. I don't feel like nothing was wrong with my last album. I just feel like it was kinda was far-fetched for niggas- like over their heads. Shout out to Game- he came through and blessed the shit. Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy me wany and Jeezys on the same song together- it's crazy. We shot a video for that too. I paid for that out of my pocket I paid for 3 videos out of my pocket. I got a song with me, Sizzla and Cam. It's called Shots is… Niggas scored gangsta music, the Dipset Anthem was crazy? This is like that time s 10. It's got Sizzla on it a real Jamaican...native...crazy. Of course my single The Whistle Song it's called there it go. Nobody besides me featured on that. I got Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Game, Sizzla of course Cam and Jim Jones the family.
Beat wise- what are you working with this time around?
Of course I've got the Heatmakers on there, but like I said it's a different sound too- not a different sound but. Just like I spread it out more I don't have as much from the Heatmakers. I would say like 75% of my last album was produced by the Heatmakers. This time around I would say about 30 to 35% percent of my album was produced by Heatmakers . I got my man develop, he produced about I say another 35 to 40% of my album. Then I just got a lot of strategic dudes…I got my man Hiroshima produced a track, my man J-Rich produced a track, my man Shottie produced like two tracks. My man Neo did two tracks he did the Mic Check record. There's a lot of up and coming producers that I felt that hunger from. Like niggas coming with beats - they just awesome. They give a nigga better shit then I'm hearing out there. Like Niggas is chasing sounds and shit. Like chasing this producer cause he did a hot beat and it's not working for niggas, but I feel like you're the artist- you know what's hot. You going to get this nigga to get his name on your shit is not going to make it any hotter than it is.
How do you respond to pressure?
I don't deal with pressure. It is what it is. I'm going to keep putting out my good music. I'm going to keep allowing people to feel me and understand me more and more. I definitely feel like this time around is going to a better outcome than last time around. As long as I keep moving forward by the time my career if over I will definitely have gotten across this message that I'm trying to get across. Niggas can understand the nigga I am and just what I bring to the game. That difference. That change. That originality along with that real shit. I'm not trying to be like everybody... not like to be like anybody else I should say…that youth. I'm what's out there right now. I'm what's in the street right now- doing what they doing today. Living the life they live. That's what I'm rappin. That's what I'm giving niggas. All that. Niggas see me and it's like a mirror…
How's the life…what's the response...I know the labels excited are they ready for you ...everything going good for you on that end?
Everything's going good- so far so good. That's the problem I felt I had last time. I wasn't a priority at Def Jam. So this time around I'm a priority. Ya dig? And everybody's on my side from LA (Reid) to everybody that's up there. Ya know I got Cam. Cam is an enforcer- he's gonna make sure shit goes right.
...Do what you feel and do what's real. That's the key to making a real song, a song that niggas gonna feel. I don't know what a hit is. I know what's real and what comes from my heart and I what I get in that booth and do. If it comes out to be a hit and everybody loves it then that's what they call it. I aint got no hit formula. I can't say this is the formula do hits, you gotta go in and do a hook, do a bridge, do a sixteen that sounds like that. Nah man, you gotta do what comes from your heart and make that shit as real as possible so other people get it. Bottom line no matter what you do or rap about it's a million niggas or two million niggas or three million niggas that lived your life. Whether you're a ...make Snapples or whatever. Niggas lived that life... there's a billion people in the world... we haven't cracked the [shell] ...the biggest Hip Hop artist doesn't sell a fourth of that. So there's room for everybody to do whatever the fuck they want to do and still get their point across. So you get in that booth and you do what's real. That's the formula for making a hit to me.
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